Potstirrer Podcast
@potstirrerpodcast.bsky.social
In a system of lies, hold fast to truth.
Podcast about politics, religion & history hosted by political science PhD Jaye Pool. Podcasting since 2017, on Bluesky since 2024.
Website: http://potstirrerpodcast.com
Podcast about politics, religion & history hosted by political science PhD Jaye Pool. Podcasting since 2017, on Bluesky since 2024.
Website: http://potstirrerpodcast.com
Pinned
Podcast ep is coming!
Full disclosure - I underestimated how much energy goes into a book launch. There's also another one coming 2-3 months out.
I also haven’t settled on the subject of the Q1 episode, because with Trump 2.0, there are so many directions I can focus on.
🧵🪡
Full disclosure - I underestimated how much energy goes into a book launch. There's also another one coming 2-3 months out.
I also haven’t settled on the subject of the Q1 episode, because with Trump 2.0, there are so many directions I can focus on.
🧵🪡
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TOMORROW 6/27 I'll be on Whereabouts Tales Podcast to discuss Make Me Free & To Die Is Gain. Check out this real conversation!
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Also, enter the giveaway on IG for signed copies of my novels! For details on how to enter: www.instagram.com/p/DLP3LobK_6w/
#bookgiveaway #podcasts #whereaboutstales
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Also, enter the giveaway on IG for signed copies of my novels! For details on how to enter: www.instagram.com/p/DLP3LobK_6w/
#bookgiveaway #podcasts #whereaboutstales
June 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
TOMORROW 6/27 I'll be on Whereabouts Tales Podcast to discuss Make Me Free & To Die Is Gain. Check out this real conversation!
🖋️📚💙
Also, enter the giveaway on IG for signed copies of my novels! For details on how to enter: www.instagram.com/p/DLP3LobK_6w/
#bookgiveaway #podcasts #whereaboutstales
🖋️📚💙
Also, enter the giveaway on IG for signed copies of my novels! For details on how to enter: www.instagram.com/p/DLP3LobK_6w/
#bookgiveaway #podcasts #whereaboutstales
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I personally have not seen this posted in a while. Please share as a reminder.
May 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I personally have not seen this posted in a while. Please share as a reminder.
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago...
Since Trump assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with the public have gone silent
www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
Since Trump assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with the public have gone silent
www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago...
Since Trump assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with the public have gone silent
www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
Since Trump assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with the public have gone silent
www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
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What happens when soulmates believe the wrong story?
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The Losantiverse Duology is now on Itch 😃
To celebrate, get both Make Me Free and To Die Is Gain as a bundle for only $12.49!
#makemefree #todieisgain #itchio #itchiobooks #indienovel #indieauthor #bookbundle #itch
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The Losantiverse Duology is now on Itch 😃
To celebrate, get both Make Me Free and To Die Is Gain as a bundle for only $12.49!
#makemefree #todieisgain #itchio #itchiobooks #indienovel #indieauthor #bookbundle #itch
Losantiverse Bundle by Jaye Pool
A bundle by Jaye Pool, $12.49 for Make Me Free, To Die Is Gain
itch.io
May 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What happens when soulmates believe the wrong story?
🖋️📚💙
The Losantiverse Duology is now on Itch 😃
To celebrate, get both Make Me Free and To Die Is Gain as a bundle for only $12.49!
#makemefree #todieisgain #itchio #itchiobooks #indienovel #indieauthor #bookbundle #itch
🖋️📚💙
The Losantiverse Duology is now on Itch 😃
To celebrate, get both Make Me Free and To Die Is Gain as a bundle for only $12.49!
#makemefree #todieisgain #itchio #itchiobooks #indienovel #indieauthor #bookbundle #itch
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The "TheoBros" are opening a church in Washington D.C.
The leader of this mission? Doug Wilson, a pastor known for saying that women should never have been given the right to vote.
The leader of this mission? Doug Wilson, a pastor known for saying that women should never have been given the right to vote.
A Christian nationalist TheoBro church is coming to DC
Its leaders see "many strategic opportunities."
www.motherjones.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The "TheoBros" are opening a church in Washington D.C.
The leader of this mission? Doug Wilson, a pastor known for saying that women should never have been given the right to vote.
The leader of this mission? Doug Wilson, a pastor known for saying that women should never have been given the right to vote.
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TO DIE IS GAIN, the exciting sequel to MAKE ME FREE, is a gripping tale of love, loss & the courage to start over.
🖋️📚💙
Coming Tuesday, May 6.
www.jayepool.com/todieisgain
#indieauthormonth #todieisgain #adventurefiction #secondchanceromance #booksaboutfriendship #exvangelical #blackbooksky
🖋️📚💙
Coming Tuesday, May 6.
www.jayepool.com/todieisgain
#indieauthormonth #todieisgain #adventurefiction #secondchanceromance #booksaboutfriendship #exvangelical #blackbooksky
The road keeps going.
YouTube video by Jaye Pool, Author
youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
TO DIE IS GAIN, the exciting sequel to MAKE ME FREE, is a gripping tale of love, loss & the courage to start over.
🖋️📚💙
Coming Tuesday, May 6.
www.jayepool.com/todieisgain
#indieauthormonth #todieisgain #adventurefiction #secondchanceromance #booksaboutfriendship #exvangelical #blackbooksky
🖋️📚💙
Coming Tuesday, May 6.
www.jayepool.com/todieisgain
#indieauthormonth #todieisgain #adventurefiction #secondchanceromance #booksaboutfriendship #exvangelical #blackbooksky
Check out this thread linking Trump's efforts to bring Harvard to heel to the Dobbs decision killing Roe.
#HarvardLawsuit #DobbsVJackson #RoeVWade #podcast #resegregation #DEI #diversityequityinclusion #segregationacademies #wearenotgoingback
#HarvardLawsuit #DobbsVJackson #RoeVWade #podcast #resegregation #DEI #diversityequityinclusion #segregationacademies #wearenotgoingback
The paws of the Heritage Foundation & Christian Right are all over this.
- Trump regime claims this move is "fighting antisemitism." Evangelical Christianity has historically used Jewish ppl for its own ends (see: end times theology). That's how support for Israel & antisemitism coexist.
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- Trump regime claims this move is "fighting antisemitism." Evangelical Christianity has historically used Jewish ppl for its own ends (see: end times theology). That's how support for Israel & antisemitism coexist.
🧵🪡
April 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Check out this thread linking Trump's efforts to bring Harvard to heel to the Dobbs decision killing Roe.
#HarvardLawsuit #DobbsVJackson #RoeVWade #podcast #resegregation #DEI #diversityequityinclusion #segregationacademies #wearenotgoingback
#HarvardLawsuit #DobbsVJackson #RoeVWade #podcast #resegregation #DEI #diversityequityinclusion #segregationacademies #wearenotgoingback
The paws of the Heritage Foundation & Christian Right are all over this.
- Trump regime claims this move is "fighting antisemitism." Evangelical Christianity has historically used Jewish ppl for its own ends (see: end times theology). That's how support for Israel & antisemitism coexist.
🧵🪡
- Trump regime claims this move is "fighting antisemitism." Evangelical Christianity has historically used Jewish ppl for its own ends (see: end times theology). That's how support for Israel & antisemitism coexist.
🧵🪡
April 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The paws of the Heritage Foundation & Christian Right are all over this.
- Trump regime claims this move is "fighting antisemitism." Evangelical Christianity has historically used Jewish ppl for its own ends (see: end times theology). That's how support for Israel & antisemitism coexist.
🧵🪡
- Trump regime claims this move is "fighting antisemitism." Evangelical Christianity has historically used Jewish ppl for its own ends (see: end times theology). That's how support for Israel & antisemitism coexist.
🧵🪡
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Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
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This is how you do it.
The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".
The moral imperative may be to fight...
but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:
www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".
The moral imperative may be to fight...
but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:
www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in
AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...
www.gazettenet.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is how you do it.
The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".
The moral imperative may be to fight...
but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:
www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".
The moral imperative may be to fight...
but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:
www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
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SALE! 🎂
MAKE ME FREE ebook is now $4.99 USD!
🖋️📚💙
🤫 Family secrets
💔 Unrequited Love
👩🏽🍼 Missing Mother
🏃🏽♀️⛪️ #Exvangelical
🌶️ Open-door spicy
♾️ Neurodivergent FMC
🏠👩🏽❤️💋👨🏻 Neighbors to lovers
Hurry now - sale ends 4/20!
books2read.com/makemefree
#booksale #indiebooksale #limitedtime #makemefree #sale
MAKE ME FREE ebook is now $4.99 USD!
🖋️📚💙
🤫 Family secrets
💔 Unrequited Love
👩🏽🍼 Missing Mother
🏃🏽♀️⛪️ #Exvangelical
🌶️ Open-door spicy
♾️ Neurodivergent FMC
🏠👩🏽❤️💋👨🏻 Neighbors to lovers
Hurry now - sale ends 4/20!
books2read.com/makemefree
#booksale #indiebooksale #limitedtime #makemefree #sale
April 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM
SALE! 🎂
MAKE ME FREE ebook is now $4.99 USD!
🖋️📚💙
🤫 Family secrets
💔 Unrequited Love
👩🏽🍼 Missing Mother
🏃🏽♀️⛪️ #Exvangelical
🌶️ Open-door spicy
♾️ Neurodivergent FMC
🏠👩🏽❤️💋👨🏻 Neighbors to lovers
Hurry now - sale ends 4/20!
books2read.com/makemefree
#booksale #indiebooksale #limitedtime #makemefree #sale
MAKE ME FREE ebook is now $4.99 USD!
🖋️📚💙
🤫 Family secrets
💔 Unrequited Love
👩🏽🍼 Missing Mother
🏃🏽♀️⛪️ #Exvangelical
🌶️ Open-door spicy
♾️ Neurodivergent FMC
🏠👩🏽❤️💋👨🏻 Neighbors to lovers
Hurry now - sale ends 4/20!
books2read.com/makemefree
#booksale #indiebooksale #limitedtime #makemefree #sale
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Free ARCs still available for To Die Is Gain!
🖋️📚💙
❤️Second chances
🧠 Bipolar & OCD MMC
🕯️Evangelical deconstruction
🌶️ Open-door spicy scenes
🚙 Road trip
For more info & sign up:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ARCSky #ARCReaders #ARCReadersWanted #freebook #exvangelicals #BlackBookSky #OhioSky
🖋️📚💙
❤️Second chances
🧠 Bipolar & OCD MMC
🕯️Evangelical deconstruction
🌶️ Open-door spicy scenes
🚙 Road trip
For more info & sign up:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ARCSky #ARCReaders #ARCReadersWanted #freebook #exvangelicals #BlackBookSky #OhioSky
April 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Free ARCs still available for To Die Is Gain!
🖋️📚💙
❤️Second chances
🧠 Bipolar & OCD MMC
🕯️Evangelical deconstruction
🌶️ Open-door spicy scenes
🚙 Road trip
For more info & sign up:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ARCSky #ARCReaders #ARCReadersWanted #freebook #exvangelicals #BlackBookSky #OhioSky
🖋️📚💙
❤️Second chances
🧠 Bipolar & OCD MMC
🕯️Evangelical deconstruction
🌶️ Open-door spicy scenes
🚙 Road trip
For more info & sign up:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ARCSky #ARCReaders #ARCReadersWanted #freebook #exvangelicals #BlackBookSky #OhioSky
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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
March 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
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Reup: I've been trying to track the things Trump has taken away. This is VERY much a work in progress, imperfectly presented.
But please let me know what is missing (or better yet, steal my work)!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...
But please let me know what is missing (or better yet, steal my work)!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...
Work in Progress: What Trump Took Away - emptywheel
A preliminary list of the things Trump has taken away.
www.emptywheel.net
March 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Reup: I've been trying to track the things Trump has taken away. This is VERY much a work in progress, imperfectly presented.
But please let me know what is missing (or better yet, steal my work)!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...
But please let me know what is missing (or better yet, steal my work)!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...
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As I often say, if you want to know what happened to our democracy, ask an exvangelical
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
💯
Podcast ep is coming!
Full disclosure - I underestimated how much energy goes into a book launch. There's also another one coming 2-3 months out.
I also haven’t settled on the subject of the Q1 episode, because with Trump 2.0, there are so many directions I can focus on.
🧵🪡
Full disclosure - I underestimated how much energy goes into a book launch. There's also another one coming 2-3 months out.
I also haven’t settled on the subject of the Q1 episode, because with Trump 2.0, there are so many directions I can focus on.
🧵🪡
March 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Podcast ep is coming!
Full disclosure - I underestimated how much energy goes into a book launch. There's also another one coming 2-3 months out.
I also haven’t settled on the subject of the Q1 episode, because with Trump 2.0, there are so many directions I can focus on.
🧵🪡
Full disclosure - I underestimated how much energy goes into a book launch. There's also another one coming 2-3 months out.
I also haven’t settled on the subject of the Q1 episode, because with Trump 2.0, there are so many directions I can focus on.
🧵🪡
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Listen to my appearance on the Heyy Girl Podcast!
Thank you Jennifer for the opportunity to be on and share my story, and for the wonderful conversation!
#makemefree #podcastappearance #heyygirlpodcast #podcasts #grief #booksky #authorsky #podsky
Thank you Jennifer for the opportunity to be on and share my story, and for the wonderful conversation!
#makemefree #podcastappearance #heyygirlpodcast #podcasts #grief #booksky #authorsky #podsky
Turning Pain into Purpose: Jaye’s Journey Through Writing and Healing by Heyy Girl Podcast
In this episode of Heyy Girl, I chat with author Jaye about the healing power of storytelling and creativity. Jaye shares how writing Make Me Free helped process grief, navigate mental health challeng...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Listen to my appearance on the Heyy Girl Podcast!
Thank you Jennifer for the opportunity to be on and share my story, and for the wonderful conversation!
#makemefree #podcastappearance #heyygirlpodcast #podcasts #grief #booksky #authorsky #podsky
Thank you Jennifer for the opportunity to be on and share my story, and for the wonderful conversation!
#makemefree #podcastappearance #heyygirlpodcast #podcasts #grief #booksky #authorsky #podsky
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Happy Release Day! 🖋️📚💙
Make Me Free, my debut litfic novel, is now available!
Order now: www.jayepool.com/makemefree
Make Me Free is also on Kobo Plus!
#debutnovel #releaseday #bookrelease #koboplus #bookshop #BlackBookSky #makemefree #indienovel #supportindiebooks #ownvoices
Make Me Free, my debut litfic novel, is now available!
Order now: www.jayepool.com/makemefree
Make Me Free is also on Kobo Plus!
#debutnovel #releaseday #bookrelease #koboplus #bookshop #BlackBookSky #makemefree #indienovel #supportindiebooks #ownvoices
March 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Release Day! 🖋️📚💙
Make Me Free, my debut litfic novel, is now available!
Order now: www.jayepool.com/makemefree
Make Me Free is also on Kobo Plus!
#debutnovel #releaseday #bookrelease #koboplus #bookshop #BlackBookSky #makemefree #indienovel #supportindiebooks #ownvoices
Make Me Free, my debut litfic novel, is now available!
Order now: www.jayepool.com/makemefree
Make Me Free is also on Kobo Plus!
#debutnovel #releaseday #bookrelease #koboplus #bookshop #BlackBookSky #makemefree #indienovel #supportindiebooks #ownvoices
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ONE WEEK until the release of MAKE ME FREE! 🖋️📚💙
🤱🏽🚫 missing mom
🏃♀️ ⛪️ faith deconstruction
💔 limerence
♾️ autistic-coded MC
🤫 family secrets
Preorder: www.jayepool.com/mmfpreorders
Newsletter Sign-Up: www.jayepool.com/newsletter
#Blackbooksky #preorder #debutnovel #indieauthor #litfic #exvangelical
🤱🏽🚫 missing mom
🏃♀️ ⛪️ faith deconstruction
💔 limerence
♾️ autistic-coded MC
🤫 family secrets
Preorder: www.jayepool.com/mmfpreorders
Newsletter Sign-Up: www.jayepool.com/newsletter
#Blackbooksky #preorder #debutnovel #indieauthor #litfic #exvangelical
February 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ONE WEEK until the release of MAKE ME FREE! 🖋️📚💙
🤱🏽🚫 missing mom
🏃♀️ ⛪️ faith deconstruction
💔 limerence
♾️ autistic-coded MC
🤫 family secrets
Preorder: www.jayepool.com/mmfpreorders
Newsletter Sign-Up: www.jayepool.com/newsletter
#Blackbooksky #preorder #debutnovel #indieauthor #litfic #exvangelical
🤱🏽🚫 missing mom
🏃♀️ ⛪️ faith deconstruction
💔 limerence
♾️ autistic-coded MC
🤫 family secrets
Preorder: www.jayepool.com/mmfpreorders
Newsletter Sign-Up: www.jayepool.com/newsletter
#Blackbooksky #preorder #debutnovel #indieauthor #litfic #exvangelical
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
February 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
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:There was a coup in America, and no one noticed. It was a slow-moving coup, decades in the making, forged by redefining laws and loyalty until the contours of betrayal blurred."
--THEY KNEW (2022)
--THEY KNEW (2022)
February 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
:There was a coup in America, and no one noticed. It was a slow-moving coup, decades in the making, forged by redefining laws and loyalty until the contours of betrayal blurred."
--THEY KNEW (2022)
--THEY KNEW (2022)
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.